ILPC focuses on three moments of labour: labour processes, labour markets and labour organizing Traditional topics that we would welcome submissions on include:
- Labour process theory; Global value chains and the labour process; worker resistance, industrial relations and trade union strategies.
- Labour market and employment policies; Skills, knowledge and occupation; Regulation, institutions, and the labour process; Voice and participation.
- Migration and work; Gender and identities at work.
The special theme of the 2018 will be Class and the Labour Process
We particularly welcome empirical and theoretical submissions on the following topics:
- Working classes formation in the world economy; Labour and urban transformations, the workplace and everyday life.
- Labour and global capitalism geographical re-configurations: borders, corridors, special economic zones; Precarious work and the informal economy.
- The feminization of labour; Dispossessions, migrations and forced labour.
- Labour process transformations, trade unions and class organizing; Social movements, work and anti-capitalist strategies.
- Work, commons and alternative economies; Capital contradictions, work and social change; Work and value production in the sharing and digital economy.